Raison d’être announces ‘The Empty Hollow Unfolds’ — first-ever vinyl edition due October 17 on Cyclic Law
Raison d’être announces 'The Empty Hollow Unfolds' — first-ever vinyl edition due October 17 on Cyclic Law
Swedish dark ambient project Raison d’être will reissue the 2000 album “The Empty Hollow Unfolds” for the first time on vinyl, via Cyclic Law on October 17, 2025. The double-LP arrives as part of the album’s 25th-anniversary edition.
The album is issued as a 2×LP in two variants: 200 copies on marbled vinyl and 200 copies on black vinyl (total 400). Packaging includes a heavy gatefold sleeve with matte varnish and black paper inners. This edition contains eight tracks (running time approx. 73 minutes), remastered for vinyl and including three bonus tracks not present on the original 2000 CD.
About Raison d’être
Raison d’être is the long-running dark ambient/industrial project of Swedish composer Peter Andersson, founded in 1991 in Boxholm, Sweden.
Early material appeared on cassette (including “Après Nous Le Déluge,” 1992) before Andersson signed to the legendary Cold Meat Industry label, which released a sequence of 1990s albums that established the project’s sound.
Key titles from that period include “Prospectus I” (1993), “Enthralled by the Wind of Loneliness” (1994), “Within the Depths of Silence and Phormations” (1995), and “In Sadness, Silence and Solitude” (1997), followed by “The Empty Hollow Unfolds” (2000).
Subsequent years saw further studio albums and archival projects across various labels, with Cyclic Law handling many recent reissues and anniversary editions, and “Daemonum” marking the 30-year milestone in 2021. Raison d’être remains the solo project led by Andersson.
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